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This morning I had the unfortunate task of issuing an apology on behalf of the Nomads to our friends at Barrie RFC.

On Saturday during the men’s 1st XV game, some of our support unfortunately crossed the line from friendly and supportive to nasty and vindictive.

It should be noted that the reports of the poor behaviour came from fellow Nomads and not the opposition.

In particular, with an opposition player injured, some of our sideline support made inappropriate comments to both that player and the opposition generally. This is absolutely not in the spirit of rugby.

Passion and compassion should characterize all Nomads both on and off the field. We are proudly competitive and highly respectful of the teams we play against. The whole rugby community is a small, tight-knit one, filled with great people who have a love of our sport. Let’s never lose sight of that.

Let us also never lose sight of the fact that all players who wear the Nomad jersey do so with great pride. It is incumbent on all of us as supporters to match that pride and integrity from the sidelines or stands.

I will say that this is the first time in my tenure that I have had to apologize for something such as this, and so I am confident that this was an isolated incident.

The Nomads is a proud rugby club with a fantastic group of people associated with it. I urge all of us to look inwardly and recognize the difference between passionately supporting our club and behaving disrespectfully and rudely to others.

After an epic sweep of wins last week, all teams return to Fletchers for July 22. The women face The Blues at noon, while the thirds kick off against Barrie at the same time. Seconds to follow at 1:30 also versus Barrie with the firsts finishing off the day with a 3:00 p.m. game.

JULY 15 SCORES:

Senior Women went up against the also undefeated Beach and left with 41-5 win. For now, the ladies and their junior girls remain at the top of their respective ladders. Seconds clobbered the Beavers with a 55-14 win. Firsts took home a few Brampton pelts, too, with their 43-10 victory.

Wow! What an amazing weekend for our club. Nomads 1sts and 2nds beat Waterloo, who had been bogarting the top table position. Although the 3rds, fell, they put up a valiant effort. On the Women’s side, the ladies beat Cru after an epic, unrelenting first half. Even our junior girls have been crushing it, with a commanding win against The Beach earlier in the week.

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The first real rugby day of the season (May 13) saw Nomads wins were across the board! Our 2nd XV took a big fat W with 30-22 victory over the Vikings. The 1st XV smashed Oshawa with an even tighter margin of 27-24 for a cracker game. On the women’s side, the ladies set the tone for 2017 with a 43-5 win over Barrie. See below for Coach Campbell’s cracker review of the the ladies first season game!

1st XV

Tries: Lucas Paulino, Scott McTavish, Emil Borggren

Conversions: Mikey Cody (3)

Penalties: Mikey (2)

2nd XV

Tries: Kyle Makischuk, Mehdi Mohammadi, David Magaya, The Scottish Play

The first game of the regular season saw the Nomads Senior Women take on Barrie in perfect conditions. The team was made to work hard before the first whistle was even blown. For what must have been a very good reason, the ground staff painted the lines on the field whilst the teams warmed up, casually moving long lengths of string through warm up drills, much to the delight of the coaches.

The Nomads started the game slowly, allowing Barrie to dictate the pace of the game and créate messy ruck ball, legally of course. Patches of brilliance saw several line breaks which were nipped in the bud by some excellent scrambling defence from Barrie. One moment that typifed the first halve was a 5 metre scrum on Barries line. The Barrie scrum halve fed the ball, a monster scrum turned the ball over and was then promptly kicked forward by the Nomads 8 who was keeping an eye out for the opposing players to take the ball. A moment that will no doubt be brought up again on a particular evening.

A breakout try from debutant Jean Baker took the Nomads into the half with a 7-0 lead, with the message being centred around tidying up the ruck ball in the second half, and turning bear/beer hugs into chop tackles.

The second half performance went up 10 notches from the Nomads, tidy ruck ball and strong tackling saw tries being scored in quick succession. Returning Nomad Desaun Isiah crossed for two tries, and back rower Zuzana Wandas broke the line from 30 metres out before dotting down for her maiden try. Constant pressure from the Nomads paid dividends with Jean crossing for her second, and what could claim to be the try of the season so far as Grace Rivera started and finished a 150 metre passage of catch and pass between what seemed like 20 hands at the time.

With Clare Street knocking the conversions from everywhere, and Jean taking the glory conversions from out in front, the score finished with Nomads on top 43-5.

The ladies have a break this weekend, before taking on Missisauga on Junior Nomads Day. Look forward to seeing all of the supporters there!!!!

Toronto Nomads Rugby Club

One of six Toronto rugby clubs who founded the TRU and ORU in 1950. We provide a complete range of rugby programs and teams for girls, boys, women and men of all ages from kindergarten to senior women and men, and are the only city-based club offering year-round rugby.

We train in Toronto's west end. In the summer, juniors at Eglinton Flats, seniors at Oakwood Collegiate. Our winter home is Lamport Stadium. Senior home games are at Fletcher's Fields (map), the Home of Ontario Rugby.